This was shown by new tests that the Vatican informed on Tuesday.
Pope Francis, who is treated in the hospital for respiratory infection, has two -sided pneumonia. AP wrote that this is another complication in the health condition of the 88-year-old head of the Catholic Church. According to the Vatican, the Pope remains in a good mood, writes TASR.
The Pope, who has removed part of one lung in his youth, has been suffering from a respiratory disease for more than a week. After his hospitalization Friday in the Roman hospital Gemelli, doctors officially confirmed the airway infection.
“The control CT examination of the chest that the Holy Father underwent this afternoon … has shown the occurrence of two -sided pneumonia, which required further pharmacological treatment,” Vatican said.
Francis’s respiratory infection also includes asthmatic bronchitis, for which cortisone antibiotics needed to be used.
The Vatican did not state how long the Pope should remain hospitalized, only stated that “treatment of such a” complex clinical picture “, which has already required two changes in treatment, will require a” adequate “stay.
According to the statement, the Pope spent a day in the hospital by alternating rest with prayer and reading texts. “Thanks for the proximity he feels at this time, and as a grateful heart, he asks us to continue to pray for him,” the Vatican added.
Francis, who has been the head of the Catholic Church since 2013, has been treated several times for respiratory diseases. In recent years, he has also undergone surgery of rupture and colon. He also uses a wheelchair for knee pain.
